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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
easy; finding a business model that was going to be sustainable was the hardest. There was a lot of competition, people weren’t purchasing things online yet, funding started drying up, then the Nasdaq crashed. We had to figure out how to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
a French aeronautic plant and shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers’ identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control. On Competition, Updated and Expanded... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year, climate and View Details
- Web
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
Waugh (MBA 2024) - SUMS accelerates adoption of sustainable materials in the fashion industry by pooling demand for those materials, unlocking economies of scale. VoltLink - Lucienne Oyer (MBA 2024) -... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
'03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz Srougi, GMP 6 2009 Dr. Consulta... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
that we call disruption are already at work in this relatively new category that has anointed Twitter as the leader of the pack. Sustaining a successful business position generally requires two things: having a successful position and... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
creation because of three reasons. First, the art itself (the "product" so to speak) was produced since the late 1940s in India although it had not been systematically traded in a sustained manner in international art markets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for developing View Details
Platform for Dialogue
with specialists of China, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, I learned that a truly comparative approach to understanding social change requires the coming together of faculty expertise in planned and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
longer underrepresented,” says Hu. “This is an opportunity to get the whole community involved and help change minds as well as create the seeds of more equitable systems in the long term.” STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion market, and Gap appeared to be falling ever further behind. In the intervening twelve years, three CEOs had struggled to turn around the fading brand. While several temporary profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
right, you’ll be seeing our products on the shelves at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. More importantly,” he says, “we’ll be empowering African farmers and opening paths that will help others succeed for years to come.” STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT Empowering... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
ecosystem whose interests were not aligned. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51375 Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues By: Grewal, Jody, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon Abstract—Shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
better way, a market-proven, step-by-step program to achieve sustained growth with rising profits and lower costs. The authors suggest that given the right incentives, managers using this program can produce astonishing results in... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
reduce their purchases of items when they see their friends buying them. This negative social effect reduces the revenue for this group by more than 14 percent. This finding is consistent with the typical fashion cycle wherein opinion... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app idea has been rattling around in... View Details